Proton(Ontology)VCDefinition

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Definition

Agent(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

An Agent is something, which can show (carry out) an independent action, whether consciously or not. Most animals are considered agents, in most contexts; so are most organizations. According to DOLCE 2.0 "objects to which we ascribe intentions, beliefs and desires". In PROTON, Agent also denotes any automatic device and service, including web services and servers.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#Agent

Event(OWL Class)Definition

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General Term(OWL Class)Definition

General concept with well defined (idiomatic) meaning which can have a set of distinct lexical items (surface realizations) associated with it. Examples are: F2F, I18N, P2P, B2B, VIP, ASAP, Semantic Web

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#GeneralTerm

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Happening(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

Something that happens. It can be either dynamic - like in "drawing a circle", or static - like in "being a president". In all cases, a happening (an event, a situation, or a time period) has a certain (usually quite concrete) temporal positioning - in the simplest case it is the one, denoted by start and end point in time.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#Happening

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Information Resource(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

InformationResource denotes an information resource with identity, as defined in Dublin Core (DC2003ISO). InformationResource is considered any communication or message that is delivered or produced, taking into account the specific intention of its originator, and also the supposition (and anticipation) for a particular audience or counter-agent in the process of communication (i.e. passive or active feed-back).

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#InformationResource

Language(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

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Location(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

Usually a geographic location on the earth, however any sort of 3D regions also fit here. The classification is based on the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus version 070203. Additionally, classes from Geonames classification are included. For each specific type, the corresponding NIMA GNS designators (DSG) are given.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#Location

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Number(OWL Class)Definition

Any given number, within the meaning that a number is one of the following: a concept of quantity derived from zero and units; or a numeral (or a string of numerals) used for identification ("she refused to give them her Social Security number"); or a phone number, etc.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#Number

Object(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

Objects are entities that could be claimed to exist - in some sense of existence. An object can play a certain role in some happenings. Objects could be substantially real - as the Buckingham Palace or a hardcopy book - or substantially imperceptible - for instance, an electronic document that exists only virtually, one cannot touch it.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#Object

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Organization(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

Organization is a group, which is established in such a way that certain known relationships and obligations exist between the members, and/or between the organization and its members, and/or between the organization and the public (individuals or groups). It includes both informal and legally constituted organizations. Organizations can act as agents - to undertake projects, to enter into agreements, to own properties, etc. Most organizations have names. Almost all of them have at least two members.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#Organization

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Product Model(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

The general concept of a product model, for example, Ford T. The instances of this class are not specific instances of the product - the latter are just instances. Although product models are rather abstract entities (generally, intangible), this class is defined as a sub-class of Object, because it has a strong temporal extent (it comes to exsitence at some point of time). There could be several information resources associated with a product model (e.g. specifications, brouchures, etc.), but it is not an information resource on its own.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#ProductModel

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Role(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

The role of an entity (usually an agent) within/during/affecting (intentionally or not) a particular happening. For instance a project coordinator, or a trial defendant, or even a material object that serves as an evidence in a trial (e.g. a weapon). Usually, we say 'this object is in this role in this happening'.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#Role

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Situation(OWL Class)Definition

A static event or situation, like "sitting on a chair" or "holding position". Typically, those are temporarily homogenous, i.e. their nature is not expected/required to change with their duration. As a happening, they used to happen/take place/be true for some periods of time and may or may not have a well-defined space extension.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#Situation

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Time Interval(OWL Class)Definition

This is a general time expression, which refers to a particular period of time, an interval. Repeating periods (like Spring or Christmas) are not time intervals, while specific instances of them (like the Spring of 1944) are. A TimeInterval could collapse, in very special cases, to a time point, however in this case, in contrast to the Abstract time point (referring to some time during the day), it should be bound to a specific date, i.e. to represent a timestamp.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#TimeInterval

Topic(OWL Class)DefinitionIn use

Any sort of a topic or theme, explicitly defined for classification purposes. As long as any other class or entity can play the role of a topic, the instances of this class are only those concepts that are defined to serve as topics. The topic class is the natural top-class for linkage of logically informal taxonomies.

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The URI of this class is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#Topic

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Derived from Source (Property)
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A reference to a resource from which the present resource is derived. The present resource may be derived from the Source resource in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to identify the referenced resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. DC2003ISO

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#derivedFromSource

has Creator (Property)
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An agent primarily responsible for making the content of a resource. Examples of Creator include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of the Creator should be used to indicate the agent. (DC2003ISO, Creator)

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#hasCreator

has Date (Property)
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Typically, Date will be associated with the creation or availability of the resource. Recommended best practice for encoding the date value is defined in a profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] and includes (among others) dates of the form YYYY-MM-DD. For official documents, it could be the date of signature. It can also contain a java timestamp. Usually, time is connected to a happening (event/situation) in which the information resource is a participation entity. These include: creation of the information resource, its modification or other important happening. Very often such happening is in the background knowledge and the modeling of domain task does not require the explicit representation of this happening. If it plays important role in the model domain or for the task, then the user needs to extend the ontology in an appropriate way.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#hasDate

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has Leader (Property)
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A general relation between an organization and a person who rules or guides or inspires it in some sense. It may or may not be an employee, may or may not be formal etc. Typically there is a single leader of an organization.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#hasLeader

has Member (Property)
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Relates a particular organization to the agents that are its members. This predicate indicates `generic' membership, although there may be specialized kinds of membership in the same organization. Typically, membership eligibility is determined by the organization and accepted with the agent's voluntary affiliation. In many cases Persons that take Positions within Organization are considered members of the organization, although this is no way formally encoded here.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#hasMember

has Old Name (Property)
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Relates an entity to its old name or alias that is no longer considered legitimate. For instance, Pekin is one of the old spellings of the name of the Chineese capital Beijing. The same happens to companies when they change their names and to womam when she gets married.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#hasOldName

has Spouse (Property)
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Relation between a man and a woman that are married. This property is time constrained by the marriage happening for the two persons. Thus, one could have different spouses in different periods. If this time relation is important for a given domain, it needs to be modelled by the marriage happening.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#hasSpouse

has Subject (Property)
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The topic of content of a given resource. Comment: Typically, the Subject will be expressed as keywords, key phrases, or classification codes that describe the topic of resource. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary or formal classification scheme. (DC2003ISO, Subject)

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#hasSubject

in Language (Property)
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The language of the intellectual content of a resource. Recommended best practice is to use RFC 3066 [RFC3066], which, in conjunction with ISO 639 [ISO639], defines two- and three-letter primary language tags with optional subtags. Examples include “en” or “eng” for English, “akk” for Akkadian, and “en-GB” for English used in the United Kingdom. DC2003ISO

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#inLanguage

Information Resource Coverage (Property)
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The extent or scope of resource content. Typically, Coverage will include spatial location (a place name or geographic coordinates), temporal period (a period label, date, or date range), or jurisdiction (such as a named administrative entity). Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]) and to use, where appropriate, named places or time periods in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges. DC2003ISO

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#informationResourceCoverage

Information Resource Identifier (Property)
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An unambiguous reference to the information resource within a given context. Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. Formal identification systems include but are not limited to the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) (including the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)), the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), and the International Standard Book Number (ISBN). DC2003ISO.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#informationResourceIdentifier

Information Resource Rights (Property)
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Information about rights held in and over the resource. Typically, Rights will contain a rights management statement for the resource, or reference to a service providing such information. Rights information often encompasses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, and various Property Rights. If the Rights element is absent, no assumptions should be made about any rights held in or over the resource. DC2003ISO

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#informationResourceRights

is Boss of (Property)
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Relates a Person to another one, where the first is the immediate boss or supervisor of the latter. This is a many-to-many relationship, i.e. there can be more than one boss of a person, even contemporally.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#isBossOf

is Legal Entity (Property)
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Determines whether a particular Agent is a legal entity. The range should be constrained to Boolean. Agents, for which the value is True, correspond to instances of http://www.cyc.com/2003/04/01/cyc#LegalAgent, which is defined as follows "Each instance of #LegalAgent is an agent who has some status in a particular legal system. At the very least, such an agent is recognized by some legal authority as having some kinds of rights and/or responsibilities as an agent (e.g., #citizens of Germany), ... ". In PROTON, it is modeled as property in order to avoid multiple-inheritance of classes and/or multiple classifications of instances.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#isLegalEntity

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Main Label (Property)
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This is a label of an entity which is consider to be representative for it. In cases when the entity is presented to someone, usually, this label will be used. In a sense, it is a specializatoin of rdfs:label

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#mainLabel

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Parent Organization of (Property)
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A relation between two organizations, where one of them is dependent on the other in some sense. This is a transitive relation, i.e. if organization X is a parent organization of Y and the latter is a parent organization of Z, then X is also considered a parent organization of Z. Inverse of subsidiaryOrganizationOf.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#parentOrganizationOf

Resource Format (Property)
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The physical or digital manifestation of the resource. Typically, Format will include the media-type or dimensions of the resource. Format may be used to identify the software, hardware, or other equipment needed to display or operate the resource. Examples of dimensions include size and duration. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the list of Internet Media Types [MIME] defining computer media formats). DC2003ISO

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#resourceFormat

Resource Type (Property)
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The nature or genre of the content of the resource. Type includes terms describing general categories, functions, genres, or aggregation levels for content. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the DCMI Type Vocabulary [DCT]). To describe the physical or digital manifestation of the resource, use the resourceFormat property. DC2003ISO.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#resourceType

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Stated by (Property)
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Relates a statement to the agent who made it. In the case of an offer, the agent is the offerer; in case of a contract, those are the parties. In case of written statements, the creator/author and the "stater" could be different agents, due to the fact that one agent my have prepared and/or published a statement on behalf of another.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#statedBy

Subsidiary Organization of (Property)
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Indicates that an organization is in some sense part of another organization. This necessarily requires structural and organizational relations and may or may not indicate ownership. Its reverse, parentOrganizationOf, is a special case of partial control.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#subsidiaryOrganizationOf

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System Primitive (Property)
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The system classes and properties are used to encode system specific information. They, as well as their instances and related information, should usually not be presented to the end-user. In practice, user-interface and visualization modules, can filter such primitives. All system primitives with this property should be marked with string value "T".

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#systemPrimitive

This property is a
annotation property.

Title (Property)
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A name given to an information resource. Typically, title will be a name by which the resource is formally known. (DC2003ISO, Title there)

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#title

Transitive over (Property)
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Makes possible the modelling of a specific, but rather useful modelling pattern. The semantics is defined with the following axiom: (p,transitiveOver,q) (x,p,y) (y,q,z) => (x,p,z). Sample usage is: (locatedIn, transitiveOver, subRegionOf) (Ontotext,locatedIn,Bulgaria) (Bulgaria,subRegionOf,Europe) => (Ontotext,locatedIn,Europe). The intended domain and range of this property are owl:ObjectProperty; those are not formally specified, in order not to get the ontology outside the OWL DL segment.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#transitiveOver

This property is a
annotation property.

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Valid from (Property)
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The time when a statement is made valid. The happing of making the statement valid is not explicitly represented in Proton. If it is necessary for the task the ontology needs to be extented.

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The URI of this property is http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protontop#validFrom